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Archie Bunker
Archibald "Archie" Bunker is a fictional New Yorker in the 1970s top-rated American television sitcom All in the Family and its spin-off Archie Bunker's Place, played to acclaim by Carroll O'Connor. Bunker, a principal character of the series, is a veteran of World War II, reactionary, conservative, blue-collar worker, and family man. Described as a "lovable bigot", The Bunker character was first seen by the American public when All in the Family premiered on January 12, 1971, where he was depicted as the head of a family. In 1979, the show was retooled and renamed Archie Bunker's Place, finally going off the air in 1983. Bunker lived at the fictional address of 704 Hauser Street in the borough of Queens in New York City.
All in the Family got many of its laughs by playing on Archie's bigotry, although the dynamic tension between Archie and liberal Mike provided an ongoing political and social sounding board for a variety of topics. Archie appears in all but seven episodes of the series (three were missed because of a contractual dispute between Carroll O'Connor and Norman Lear in Season 5).
In 1999 TV Guide ranked him number 5 on its 50 Greatest TV Characters of All Time list. In 2005, Archie Bunker was listed as number 1 on Bravo's 100 Greatest TV Characters, defeating runners-up such as Ralph Kramden, Lucy Ricardo, Arthur Fonzarelli, and Homer Simpson.
Archie's armchair is in the permanent collection of the National Museum of American History.
Famous for his gruff, bigoted persona—blacks, Hispanics, communists, hippies, gays, Jews, Catholics, "women's libbers", and Polish-Americans are frequent targets of his barbs. Rather than being motivated by malice, he is portrayed as hardworking, a loving father and husband, and a basically decent man whose views are merely a product of the era and working-class environment in which he had been raised. Nevertheless, Archie is bad-tempered and frequently tells his long-suffering, scatter-brained wife Edith to "stifle yourself" and "dummy up". Series creator Norman Lear admitted that this is how his father treated Lear's mother.
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All in the Family got many of its laughs by playing on Archie's bigotry, although the dynamic tension between Archie and liberal Mike provided an ongoing political and social sounding board for a variety of topics. Archie appears in all but seven episodes of the series (three were missed because of a contractual dispute between Carroll O'Connor and Norman Lear in Season 5).
In 1999 TV Guide ranked him number 5 on its 50 Greatest TV Characters of All Time list. In 2005, Archie Bunker was listed as number 1 on Bravo's 100 Greatest TV Characters, defeating runners-up such as Ralph Kramden, Lucy Ricardo, Arthur Fonzarelli, and Homer Simpson.
Archie's armchair is in the permanent collection of the National Museum of American History.
Famous for his gruff, bigoted persona—blacks, Hispanics, communists, hippies, gays, Jews, Catholics, "women's libbers", and Polish-Americans are frequent targets of his barbs. Rather than being motivated by malice, he is portrayed as hardworking, a loving father and husband, and a basically decent man whose views are merely a product of the era and working-class environment in which he had been raised. Nevertheless, Archie is bad-tempered and frequently tells his long-suffering, scatter-brained wife Edith to "stifle yourself" and "dummy up". Series creator Norman Lear admitted that this is how his father treated Lear's mother.
Links:
Wikipedia
All in the Family Wiki
Copyright Owner/Official Site
Shout! Factory
Record:
W:
L: